Repeating exploder.



PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

R. D. SIMPSON. REPBATING EXPLODBR.

. ArrLIoATIoN FILED 0012.17. 1903.

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ROBERT D. SIMPSON, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE BEREA NOVELTY COMPANY, OF BEREA,

OHIOA CORPORATION OF OHIO.

REPEATING EXPLODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed ctober 17,1903. Seria] No. 177,387. v

My invention relates to repeating explo ders,l

the object of the same being to provide'a' novel form of device of this characteri byI means of which a number of ammunition pellets may be exploded in rapid succession without the necessity of reloading. l

A further ob]l ect of the invention is to provide means for exploding the ammunition in an unconfined open s ace or chamber, thereby overcoming the anger of exploding the ammunition in the magazine.

A further object of the invention is to rovide means whereb the ammunition pe lets are fed or delivere one by one to the plunger and by the latter elevated and brought in contact with the anvil in the explosionchamber. l

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be set forth in the claims..

In the drawings forming part ofthe speciication, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved device, showing the same in thel form of an exploding or torpedo cane. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 with the plunger in its raised position. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line Qc of Fig. 1 looking upwardly. Fig. 4 is a similar section on the same line looking downwardly. Fig. 5 is an inside elevation of the two parts of the casting of which the casing on the lower end of the cane is made up, and Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views ofthe plunger.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

My improved exploder is made up of a magazine 1, a casing or body portion 2, and a plunger or firing-pin 3, the same being shown as applied to the lower end of a cane 4. The

casing 2 has been shown as made lof a casting, the two parts of which are represented in Fig. 5 of the drawings by the numerals 5 and 6. The upper end of said casing is provided with a socket 7 for the reception of the lower end of the cane 4 and is also provided with a curved passage 8, through which the ammunition pellets from the magazine 1 are delivered to the plunger 3. Said passage may be considered as part of the magazine. The said magazine is preferably constructed of sheet metal, the lower end of which lits within the casing 2, so that the interior of said -kmagazine communicates with the passage 8. The upper end of the magazine 1 is secured to the cane 4 by means of a pin 9 or other suitable device. This pin extends through the center of the magazine-tube and prevents the accidental escape of the ammunition pellets from the upper end thereof.

A filling-opening 10 is formed in the magazine-tube near the upper end of the latter, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. A vertically-extending plunger-tube or passageway 11 is formed in the lower end of the casing 2, the same intersecting and communieatingV intermediate its ends with the lower or discharge end of the curved passage 8 and having its lower end contracted,`\forming on each side a shoulder 12. The said plungertube 11 extends upwardly beyond the throat of the passage 8 and communicates with the explosion-chamber 13. This explosionchamber is openon both sides, the same being separated from the assage 8 by means of a web 14, formed on t e part 5 of the casting. This web 14 is beveled or cut away, as shown at 15, so as to permit of the ready escape ofthe gases from the explosion-chamber. The side wall of the web 14 is plane and in line with the corresponding side wall of the plunger-tube 11. Within the explosion-chamber 13 is a rib 16, constituting-an anvil, and cooperating with this anvil and vertically movable within the tube 11 is the plunger or firing-pin 3. This plunger is rectangular in cross-section to corres ond with the shape of the plunger-tube an is freely movable within said tube. The same is formed on its opposite sides with shoulders 18, which coperate with the shoulders 12 for limiting the downward movement of said plunger and reventing its accidental rremoval from t e casing. The up er end of said plunger is formed with a su stantially V-shaped notch or recess 19, which notch is IOO designed to receive the ammunition ellets and to retain them in place while the p unger is moved upwardly into contact with the anvil 16. Said anvil and said notch correspondin shape -and dimensions, so that when concussion occurs between said anvil and the pellet in said notch said pellet will be held frlom escape until explosion actually takes ace. p The operation of the device is as follows: The magazine-tube 1 is filled with suitable ammunition pellets, the said pellets settling bygravity down into the curved passage 8.

en the device is elevated from the ground, the plunger or firing-pin 3 drops by gravity and assumes the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The lowermost ammunition pellet then falls from the passage 8 into the notch 1Q in the upper end of the lunger. Upon now forcing the lower end of t e plunger with a sharp quick blow into contact with the ground said plunger will be forced upwardly and the ammunition pellet in the notch 19 will be brought into sudden contact with the anvil 16. Explosion then takes place in the usual manner and the gases generated are allowed to escape without danger of passing back into the magazine in which the ammunition is carried. This is due to the fact that theeXplosion-chamber is open on both sides and that said explosion-chamber is completely cut off from the passage 8, and consequently from the magazine, by the web 14. It is impossible for the gases to pass down through the plunger-tube 11 and hence into the passage 8, for the reason that as soon as the plunger 3 is raised it serves to cut off the throat or discharge end of said passage. Even should ignition of the ammunition in the passage 8 take place, however, no explosion could occur, as concussion is necessary to effect this. In such event the ammunition would merely burn. Concussion and consequent explosion of one of the pellets outside of the explosion-chamber 13 is impossible, as the plunger merely crosses the passage 8, and a pellet could not lodge between said plunger and the sides of the tube in which it works.

Important features of my invention are the curved passage 8 in the casing 2 ,leading from the magazine, the rectan ular plungertube 11, which intersects sai passage, the

notch in the upper end of the plunger within the latter tube, the open explosion-chamber with the anvil therein, and the web or wall separating said explosion-chamber from said Passage h Having lnow described my invention, what l,V claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

x1. A repeating eXploder comprising a magazine, a casing having a passage therein corn- 'municating with said magazine, having a plunger-tube intersecting said passage, and having an explosion-chamber at the upper end of said tube provided with a downwardlyextending rib, constituting an anvil, and a plunger movable in said tube having a'notch in its upper end adapted to receive said anvil, asand for the purpose set forth.

2. A repeating exploder comprising a magazine, a casing having a passage therein communicating with said magazine, having a plunger-tube intersecting said passage which is rectangular in cross section and has a shoulder therein, and having an explosionchamber at the upper end of said tube provided with a downwardly-extending rib, constituting an anvil, and a lunger movable in said tube, having a notcli in its upper end adapted to receive said anvil, the said plunger corresponding in size and shape with said tube and having a shoulder thereon coperating with the shoulder in said tube for limiting its downward movement, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A repeating eXploder comprising a magazine, a casing having a passage therein communicating with said magazine, having an open, unconfined explosion-chamber located on one side of said passage above the discharge end thereof, having a laterally-extending web provided with beveled or flaring walls separating said chamber from said passage, and having a plunger-tube intersecting said passage and leading into said explosionchamber, and a lunger fitting and movable in said tube, an cutting olf communication between said chamber and said passage when the parts are in position to effect the eXplosion, as and for t e purpose set forth.

4. A magazine-tor edo-cane head comprising a ferrule or soc et to receive the cane proper, a bod offset laterally to one side of the axis of t e cane and rovided with a magazine-passage having a ateral dischar emouth, guide ro ections extending from t e lower part of the ead on each side of the discharge-mouth and forming a receiving-chainber, a lateral projection from the body of the head located some distance above said guide projections and above the mouth of the chamber, and a plunger movable vertically in said chamber toward and from the anvil projection, and having the upper end of its body portion normally below the dischargemouth of the magazine-passage.

5. Ahead for magazine torpedo-canes, provided with a longitudinal magazine-passage,

said head comprising two separate members divided longitudinally with respect to said passage, the plane of division being partially central and partially offset, and means for securing said members together.

6. Ahead for magazine torpedo-canes, pro- IOO vided With a longitudinal magazine-passage, said head comprising tWo Separate members divided longitudinally With respect to said passage, the plane of division being partially I central and partially oset, said offset pori Witnesses:

tion being located adjacent to the point of ABBY W. SIMPSON, explosion. JOSEPH SIMPSON.

In testimony vvhereoi I have hereunto set my hand in presence of tWo subscribing Witmesses.

ROBERT D. SIMPSON. 

